25 years ago: Rare KU parking spaces to rise in value this fall

Parking at Kansas University was to become an even more valued commodity in the fall. According to Donna Hultine, assistant director of KU's Parking Services, blue-zone permits, usually reserved for top administrators and senior faculty, were rising from $52 to $70 annually. The campus pass, giving drivers access to Mount Oread, was to increase from $17 to $30, bringing the total for on-hill parking to $100. Red and yellow zone permits were also in line for an increase, as were parking violation fees. Hultine said that the increases were to go partly to pay for a proposed $5 million multi-level parking garage planned for the campus for 1989. A Chicago consultant recently had told the department that KU would be short about 3,600 parking spaces by 1996, with a more immediate need for 1,000 spaces by fall 1988. By 1989, cars would outnumber spaces by 3 percent, the consultant's report said.